Author Topic: Folks from NC (Read 101114 times))

magnum · « **Reply #100 on:** April 22, 2012, 02:01:11 PM »

Wake Forest for me

filteredsoul · « **Reply #101 on:** April 25, 2012, 02:25:28 PM »

Arden here... (just South of Asheville)

mtsheron70 · « **Reply #102 on:** April 26, 2012, 08:49:15 PM »

Quote from: filteredsoul on April 25, 2012, 02:25:28 PM

Arden here... (just South of Asheville)

Welcome. My office is in Skyland.....well, Asheville, but they consider it Skyland.

filteredsoul · « **Reply #103 on:** April 27, 2012, 10:30:15 AM »

I'm off Mills Gap Rd where the old Brookwood Golf course used to be...
that sounded totally southern didn't it?

Paul68 · « **Reply #104 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:21:57 AM »

No worse than " Jes a little ways on by the old burned out Wallace barn, go left by culvert 42, an foller the ole Jackson road for a bit. Ya caint miss it!"

Yup, I've actually gotten directions like that since moving out here to the boonies. Love it

mtsheron70 · « **Reply #105 on:** April 28, 2012, 08:11:38 AM »

Certainly we North Carolinians have a way of talking! I was born and raised right outside of Greensboro area and never heard the term, "You'ins" until I moved to the mountains! What a term that is

Gotta love the south! Your not a true North Carolinian unless you can eat liver pudding either! All else are Yanks!

filteredsoul · « **Reply #106 on:** April 28, 2012, 08:48:13 AM »

Guess I'll never be a true Southerner then...

aack73 · « **Reply #107 on:** April 28, 2012, 10:17:47 AM »

Quote from: Paul68 on April 27, 2012, 11:21:57 AM

No worse than " Jes a little ways on by the old burned out Wallace barn, go left by culvert 42, an foller the ole Jackson road for a bit. Ya caint miss it!"

Yup, I've actually gotten directions like that since moving out here to the boonies. Love it

lol even better is giving someone directions like that. especially someone out of state.

guess i am a simple man that i can humor myself

filteredsoul · « **Reply #108 on:** April 29, 2012, 02:40:23 PM »

aack73,
What can you tell me about your trophies in your avatar?
Look like WSK trophies to me...

aack73 · « **Reply #109 on:** April 29, 2012, 02:50:22 PM »

1997 ccs national champ light weight super bike and gt3.

PyroMonkey · « **Reply #110 on:** April 29, 2012, 11:11:59 PM »

Quote from: aack73 on April 29, 2012, 02:50:22 PM

1997 ccs national champ light weight super bike and gt3.

In that case I'm sure you've made quite a few trips through the dragons tail

filteredsoul · « **Reply #111 on:** April 30, 2012, 09:52:07 AM »

Congrats! That's awesome. I was involved in CCS/AMA between '97 and 2000. I used to live in Chicago and ran "Profile Motorsports Services". It was a chassis/suspension shop. We did lots of the midwest races, but didn't venture out to the left or right coasts. I had a rider named Todd Fowler who was a 600ss/sb rider. He did really well. Once he stopped racing, it was too hard for me to do it all by myself. In fact, me and Max McAllister (Traxxion Dynamics) started at the same time. We hung out at Race Tech in CA a lot and became friends. He's a good guy.
But now, I'm just building bikes for fun. Working on a boardtrack-style bike now. It'll be built for the parkway... fully rigid, single cyl, super simple, etc.
Again, awesome job!
BTW, what did you ride in Light Weight SB?

aack73 · « **Reply #112 on:** April 30, 2012, 10:13:22 AM »

i had the trickest nt650 around. only thing honda was the crank, cases, frame, swing arm. f2 front end, adjustable triple tree, marchesini wheels, set of flat slide keihin's, carbon tank, full body work (unpainted) kiyo watanabe in CA built the engine to my liking (not a big bore and lots of rpm's). i put a lot of time and $$$ into that one. man do i miss that bike it was so much fun.

i know Max, he used to come talk to me some. he always cracked on my suspension (super soft) and wanted to change it. lol

those were the good ole days.

@ Pyr0Monk3y never been on the dragon. did a lot of street racing on 181. luckily i lived through it. after they talked me into start racing, i stopped riding like an idiot on the road. i get into it too much. i couldn't take a casual ride through the dragon or any other road as such. after about 3 turns it would be on like donkey kong. and knowing this i avoid putting myself in that situation for my own safety reasons. like taking an alcoholic to the bar for "A" beer. lol

just don't work out that way.

filteredsoul · « **Reply #113 on:** April 30, 2012, 11:16:57 AM »

That's funny! Max was like that with EVERYONE! As an example... I had my rider on 8kg/m fork springs on his F2 and he LOVED them. Max would always start with 9.5's! Regardless of the bike, weight of rider, etc... I tried everything on that bike and Todd liked his set up soft too.

As for the Dragon, there are TONS of local roads around Asheville that are as good or better... and no one knows about them. Nothing like going all the way to the Dragon and having to share it with vacationing mini-vans and Harley riders (not that I have anything against mini-vans...)

Sorry everyone... back to air guns. Digression over.

Fishbone · « **Reply #114 on:** April 30, 2012, 11:45:31 AM »

I'm also new to the area, and distance is measured differently!
'A couple of miles', could mean 5!
'Follow that road out to the end'...could mean 20+!

'Take a right at Chreech's Four Corners'...but there is no sign!

But I love it down here, stopping, asking for directions might take a few minutes more, everyone asks where I'm from, where I live now, just want to know if they have 'kin' near me, but I'm assured of getting directions to a good fishing pond/lake!

filteredsoul, funny you mentioned an old boardtrack style bike, I was just reminiscing with an old carnival motordrome stunt rider...in the show, I used to ride an old Scout in a motordrome.
He's still doing it, as the STAR Rider, he rides an old Chief!
Yeah, I used to race too, up at Louden NH, (just regional) before it was a 'Bike Week' for T&A!

filteredsoul · « **Reply #115 on:** April 30, 2012, 12:33:45 PM »

In my case, when someone asks you where you're from and you say "Chicago", I get one of 2 responses...
The first is: Cool! What's it like with all those people? Did you ever go to Cubs/Bulls/Sox games?...
The second is: "dang" Yankee! Movin' down here an takin all our jobs!
So now, if I'm asked, and I sense that I'm being judged, I'll just say "Jackson County."
Don't know where Jackson County is -or if it exists, but they usually don't either. They just say "oh yeah..."
Nice, generic answer.

Fishbone, the old carnival rider wasn't "Lucky" Lott was it? THAT dude is a LEGEND! All those guys rode Indians -usually Scouts. They were easier to ride no-handed. (more stable) The frame geometry was different from the Harleys and were the preferred bike for spheres of death, crashing thru flaming walls, etc.

Fishbone · « **Reply #116 on:** May 02, 2012, 11:52:44 AM »

filteredsoul, I think Lucky was out of Canada.
We all used different stage names when 'roaming' outside our territory.
My buddy was 'Jay Lightning' and I was his halfbreed brother 'Johnny Lightning'!
Native American headbands, war hoops, we played it up!
My favorite trick was standing on the seat...facing backwards! Could do it without thinking, you wouldn't believe how easy they are for trick riding.

As far as the Dam Yankee...you know the difference between a Yankee and a DAM Yankee?
A Yankee comes down her, fishes, hunts, drink some shine and goes home...a dam Yankee doesn't leave!

filteredsoul · « **Reply #117 on:** May 02, 2012, 01:43:43 PM »

That's AWESOME!
I have a book at home that profiles some of the more "colorful" characters from the old motorcycle days... Lucky Lee was one of them, of course Evel Knievel, and others...
I love that old stuff.
As for the Yankees... So far I'm one of the DAM kind...

mtsheron70 · « **Reply #118 on:** July 05, 2012, 05:40:57 PM »

Not to be in competition or trying to lure folks from the GTA. But I have started a NC Airgunners forum to work in conjunction with this great forum to demographically make the NC contingent much stronger. Back in 2008 myself with a few visionary type folks started a WNC Airgun Club. Around 20 members but did not survive due to the economy. I have since then decided to get the area revived through a NC specific forum to give those GTA members here a more localized place to share ideas and meets. This site is not and will not be a substitute for the GTA which is the best site on the net. It is a sub forum you might say to go to once in a while to get NC people up and meeting.

So here is the link and please join if you wish, if not and you care not to, that is okay as well.

http://ncairgunners.freeforums.org/index.php

Hunter45 · « **Reply #119 on:** July 05, 2012, 06:28:10 PM »

I live in Willow Spring, which is just south of Raleigh.

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